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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm from Somerset not far from Bristol. I definitely don't have. Bristolian accent though  live in Devon now.
Mr doesn't really have an accent or one I would pin point
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Posh geordie "
Is there really such a thing 
And mine is Welsh (South Wales) however having spent 15 years in England it can have a northern (Lancashire) twang  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm from Somerset not far from Bristol. I definitely don't have. Bristolian accent though live in Devon now.
Mr doesn't really have an accent or one I would pin point
Mrs x"
Proper West Country then, heh. I’ve lived in Bristol, Gloucester and Plymouth but definitely sound Bristolian I think. Get odd looks when I say “cheers drive!” outside of Bristol  I like the Somerset accent |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
English isn’t my first language. I was taught by American teachers from age 4 to 19, exposed to American English until I moved to the UK at age 30. Then I lived in Ireland for 3 years… you’d have to hear me to decide what my accent is like. Lol.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mine is French , literally hate it but after over 30 years in the U.K. … I guess it’s not going anywhere soon  "
Sorry to hear you’re unhappy with you accent  I hope you’re able to find a way to feel more positive one day x |
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I don't really have an accent no one ever guesses it all they can say is somewhere south!
I do confuse people as I use a lot of northern phrases because my nan was from Durham and I spend a lot of time in Scotland.
I do love an accent - Scottish makes my knees weak but a Yorkshire accent also works |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Totally Doric, which is something most English folk will have never heard and will not understand!!! It's nearly like my first language with English being second. When I worked on a rig off Norwich I hated it as I had to translate I'm my head before speaking in a horrible sounding english word version of my accent which just frustrated me and made me look dense due to the split second time delay on the banter. |
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People from the south say I sound like a rough northerner. People from the north say I sound like a soft southerner. Posh people say I sound common, and "common" people say I sound posh. Somebody also once said I have a "generic university accent". |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I have a weak scouse accent so locals don’t think I have an accent, but soon as I leave the NW people pick up on the accent and comment.
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"Mine is French , literally hate it but after over 30 years in the U.K. … I guess it’s not going anywhere soon
Sorry to hear you’re unhappy with you accent I hope you’re able to find a way to feel more positive one day x"
Try sounding like a character of “Allo Allo” |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I suppose my accent is north Wiltshire as I've lived there for most of my adult life, prior to that I must have sounded more Bristolian as I grew up in that area. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Been told I have a "classy" accent. My family and I were born and brought up on the south side of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire. No Glaswegian accent here x |
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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago
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"Posh southerner but I can pick up accents really easily. When I spend time with family in Ireland I come back with a hint Irish accent.which one there are well over 100 different accents here "
Haha I was waiting for that…Clare |
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"Posh southerner but I can pick up accents really easily. When I spend time with family in Ireland I come back with a hint Irish accent.which one there are well over 100 different accents here
Haha I was waiting for that…Clare "
which one west, east, north or the one that sounds like limerick city ie the horrible one |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I appear the only cockney accent in the village so far
I imagine I'm a close one to you, was raised by an East ender and Basildonian
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Good to hear, I was drowning in a sea of posh on here |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cumbrian, not many people understand us haha"
I don't necessarily think we have an accent. If people think we do I reckon they've been speaking to the farmers knocking about instead! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cumbrian, not many people understand us haha"
lived in Cumbria nearly all my adult life and I still struggle with the accent occasionally
even my kids I'm "like what did you say"
I've got a Southern accent from Oxfordshire get asked if I'm a cockney alot though
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"What accent do you have? I am a fan of accents.
I am from outskirts of East London but sound very cockney, many say like Danny Dyer, argh
Public school English "
You will be ordering me up your chimney to clean it like the old days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Been told I have a "classy" accent. My family and I were born and brought up on the south side of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire. No Glaswegian accent here x
Don't you mean Ayrshire? "
You'll still soon like a Weegie to me!! |
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By *haggydogMan
over a year ago
Brooklands/London |
I'm from the South and have a southern accent. Not too Londony though. I love accents also. But not the ones from my end of the country. Love €uropean accents Northern English, Scottish Welsh and Irish. But can't stand London accents.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My accent is all over the place.
I had elocution lessons in secondary school, as my English teacher objected to how fast I use to talk, when I went back to school in England, after spending time with my dads family in Wales.
My youngest daughter is a Welsh speaker, we have lived in villages (still live in one) where they’re proud to keep the language going, so even though I don’t speak Welsh, sometimes I have a strong Welsh accent.
Apparently I’m too English sounding to be Welsh (English mother) but too Welsh to sound English (I’m Welsh), throw in my dads influence (Irish) and I’m a total hybrid, haha x
Viv x
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My accent is all over the place.
I had elocution lessons in secondary school, as my English teacher objected to how fast I use to talk, when I went back to school in England, after spending time with my dads family in Wales.
My youngest daughter is a Welsh speaker, we have lived in villages (still live in one) where they’re proud to keep the language going, so even though I don’t speak Welsh, sometimes I have a strong Welsh accent.
Apparently I’m too English sounding to be Welsh (English mother) but too Welsh to sound English (I’m Welsh), throw in my dads influence (Irish) and I’m a total hybrid, haha x
Viv x
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So your wirish? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My accent is all over the place.
I had elocution lessons in secondary school, as my English teacher objected to how fast I use to talk, when I went back to school in England, after spending time with my dads family in Wales.
My youngest daughter is a Welsh speaker, we have lived in villages (still live in one) where they’re proud to keep the language going, so even though I don’t speak Welsh, sometimes I have a strong Welsh accent.
Apparently I’m too English sounding to be Welsh (English mother) but too Welsh to sound English (I’m Welsh), throw in my dads influence (Irish) and I’m a total hybrid, haha x
Viv x
So your wirish? "
Haha, I guess I am xx |
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I have quite a weird accent, it's a North Essex accent so not what you would expect from Essex, I often get told I sound posh, Australian or from New Zealand.
I'm also pretty good at mimicking accents so if someone mistakes mine I usually just go with whatever they thought I am |
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"French, not strong but there's still a little je ne sais quoi  "
tu donnes des cours ? j'en ai désespérément was laughed at when ordering some pasta in and I quote "the best london accented french ever heard"
But Iam a man of Kent often slipping into proper kent speak. Note not kenttish. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Both scottish here.........however, Jeni has a slight west coast/Glasgow twang and Mike more southern notes!!
(For our english/irish/welsh friends, there are indeed different scottish accents! lol ) |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"Both scottish here.........however, Jeni has a slight west coast/Glasgow twang and Mike more southern notes!!
(For our english/irish/welsh friends, there are indeed different scottish accents! lol )"
And every one of them is difficult to understand if you don't come from that area. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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None really. Some people I worked with when I lived in the North West said I had a bit of a feint Westcountry accent but I could pass for being from ‘anyplace’ unsure if this pleases me or not. |
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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"I appear the only cockney accent in the village so far
I imagine I'm a close one to you, was raised by an East ender and Basildonian
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Good to hear, I was drowning in a sea of posh on here "
My cousin in Basildon reckons I'm posh but she it literally the only person I know, everyone else says I'm common as muck lol
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"Yorkshire- if your not from the uk and wondering what that sounds like watch game of thrones, house Stark,the north, winter is coming etc.."
or watch emmerdale seen as its filmed i. Yorkshire about a Yorkshire village
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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London born and bred. It’s a proper gruff geezer accent but I do try to polish it up a bit when I meet new people though probably end up sounding like Del Boy when he was going through the yuppie stage |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yorkshire- if your not from the uk and wondering what that sounds like watch game of thrones, house Stark,the north, winter is coming etc..or watch emmerdale seen as its filmed i. Yorkshire about a Yorkshire village "
Or last of the summer wine lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What accent do you have? I am a fan of accents.
I am from outskirts of East London but sound very cockney, many say like Danny Dyer, argh
Public school English "
Me too |
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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago
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"Posh southerner but I can pick up accents really easily. When I spend time with family in Ireland I come back with a hint Irish accent.which one there are well over 100 different accents here
Haha I was waiting for that…Clare which one west, east, north or the one that sounds like limerick city ie the horrible one "
Haha that Limerick city one always gets my brain all confused so does Tipperary…it’s North Clare. I have to wait a day for my brain to switch modes and keep up with the conversation |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Been told I have a "classy" accent. My family and I were born and brought up on the south side of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire. No Glaswegian accent here x
Don't you mean Ayrshire? "
Lol where the heck did you get Ayrshire from? I don't have an Ayrshire accent as I haven't even lived there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Been told I have a "classy" accent. My family and I were born and brought up on the south side of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire. No Glaswegian accent here x
Don't you mean Ayrshire?
You'll still soon like a Weegie to me!!"
I can assure you I don't. If you heard me talking and also heard someone with a Glaswegian accent talking, you'd hear a very big difference between the two accents. |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"Been told I have a "classy" accent. My family and I were born and brought up on the south side of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire. No Glaswegian accent here x
Don't you mean Ayrshire?
You'll still soon like a Weegie to me!!
I can assure you I don't. If you heard me talking and also heard someone with a Glaswegian accent talking, you'd hear a very big difference between the two accents."
The southside have a more refined accent and way if talking. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Been told I have a "classy" accent. My family and I were born and brought up on the south side of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire. No Glaswegian accent here x
Don't you mean Ayrshire?
You'll still soon like a Weegie to me!!
I can assure you I don't. If you heard me talking and also heard someone with a Glaswegian accent talking, you'd hear a very big difference between the two accents.
The southside have a more refined accent and way if talking. "
Yes that's exactly what I was meaning. Thank you x |
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"Soft Scottish x
Most sexy one in my opinion!
Nothing ever will beat this combo - sexy lady with Scottish accent!  "
Makes me laugh because as soon as someone says Scottish, others automatically think Glaswegian |
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Bristolian though nit over the too lazy . I do try and drop my harsh r's and include t's. Bristolians tend to talk quickly so I've learnt to slow it down because in my job I can be training someone one from Overseas in Birmingham or wherever else and they are only used to the local dialect/accent
MrSw |
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I don't think I have one as such. I used to think I had a Coventry accent (which in its self is not very pronounced). But when I moved back home after years of living all over the country and other parts of the globe it would seem not to be the case. People here would say to me where are you from. I would say Coventry and they would say doesn't sound like you are. Plus in my previous job I lived and worked closely with people who had come from all over. So a lot of my vocabulary involved lots of career specific slang and local terms from all over.
Mr |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Soft Scottish x
Most sexy one in my opinion!
Nothing ever will beat this combo - sexy lady with Scottish accent!
Makes me laugh because as soon as someone says Scottish, others automatically think Glaswegian "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Scottish Highlands although sometimes when in England it is mistaken for an Irish accent"
You have what I call a real Scottish accent, which is lovely accent x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"East end/cockney now living in North west, (leigh)."
I lived in Manchester 3 years and of course my heavy cockney accent was not dented, but what was amusing were local lingo slipping in without me realising. Such as ‘I am DEAD tired today’ and even saying something was ‘mint’ slipped off my tongue. I stuck out like a sore thumb with my accent up there but strangely it made a few locals fancy me more. |
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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago
A world all of his own |
Having been born in deepest darkest east London, I guess I still have a little bit of a cockney twang but I never really hear it in myself. I received a large number of compliments on my accent/voice a little while ago which surprised me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What accent do you have? I am a fan of accents.
I am from outskirts of East London but sound very cockney, many say like Danny Dyer, argh "
Fifer (Scottish) & English (London) with us both xx |
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